A globe. A freestanding globe. From lateMiddle English globe , fromMiddle French globe , fromOld French globe , borrowed fromLatin globus .Doublet ofglobus .
globe (plural globes )
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.theglobe of the eye; theglobe of a lamp
The planetEarth .1712 (date written),[Joseph] Addison ,Cato, a Tragedy. [ … ] , London: [ … ] J[ acob] Tonson , [ … ] , published1713 ,→OCLC , Act I, scene i,page 1 :AlreadyCæſar Has ravaged more than half theGlobe , and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
1866 , John Locke,A System of Theology :But whatever opinion or theory may be formed by any one, all agree that at some period or other this world has been destroyed by water, and that the proofs of this assertion are found in every part of theglobe
2013 July 19,Timothy Garton Ash , “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli ”, inThe Guardian Weekly , volume189 , number 6, page18 :Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across theglobe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
A spherical model of Earth or other planet. ( dated or Australia , South Africa ) Alight bulb .1920 , Southern Pacific Company,Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 , page26 :Don't ask for a newglobe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
A circularmilitary formation used inAncient Rome , corresponding to the modern infantry square.1667 ,John Milton , “Book II”, inParadise Lost. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] ;[ a] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] ;[ a] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] ,→OCLC ; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] ,1873 ,→OCLC :Him round / Aglobe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
( slang , chiefly in theplural ) A woman'sbreast .( obsolete ) Agroup .Aland snail of the genusMesodon . planet Earth
Azerbaijani:yer kürəsi Belarusian:зямны́ шар m ( zjamný šar ) ,зямля́ f ( zjamljá ) Bulgarian:зе́мно кълбо́ n ( zémno kǎlbó ) Burmese:ကမ္ဘာ (my) ( kambha ) ,ကမ္ဘာမြေကြီး ( kambha-mre-kri: ) ,ကမ္ဘာလုံး (my) ( kambhalum: ) ( any planet ) Chinese:Mandarin:地球 (zh) ( dìqiú ) Czech:zeměkoule (cs) f Danish:klode c ,jordklode c Dutch:wereldbol (nl) m Finnish:maapallo (fi) French:Terre (fr) f ,terre (fr) f German:Erde (de) f ,Erdball (de) m ,Erdkugel (de) f Greek:υδρόγειος (el) f ( ydrógeios ) Italian:globo (it) m Japanese:地球 (ja) ( ちきゅう, Chikyū ) ,グローブ (ja) ( gurōbu ) Korean:지구(地球) (ko) ( Jigu ) Neapolitan:gruóbo Norwegian:Bokmål:jordklode (no) m ,klode m Nynorsk:jordklode m ,klode m Ottoman Turkish:ارض ( arz ) Persian:Classical Persian:کُرَه ( kura ) Iranian Persian:کُرِه ( kore ) Polish:kula ziemska (pl) f ,glob (pl) m ,glob ziemski m Portuguese:globo (pt) m Romanian:glob (ro) n ,Pământ (ro) n Russian:земно́й шар (ru) m ( zemnój šar ) ,Земля́ (ru) f ( Zemljá ) ,земля́ (ru) f ( zemljá ) Sanskrit:भूगोल (sa) m ( bhūgola ) Sinhalese:භූගෝලය ( bhūgōlaya ) Slovak:zemeguľa f Slovene:zemeljska krogla f Spanish:globo (es) m Swedish:jorden (sv) ,glob (sv) c Telugu:భూగోళము (te) ( bhūgōḷamu ) Turkish:yerküre (tr) Ukrainian:земна́ ку́ля f ( zemná kúlja ) ,земля́ (uk) f ( zemljá ) Uzbek:globus (uz) Zazaki:erdkure
model of Earth
Albanian:glob (sq) m American Sign Language:Open8@BackHand-PalmDown-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Twist Arabic:كُرَة أَرْضِيَّة f ( kura ʔarḍiyya ) Armenian:գլոբուս (hy) ( globus ) Azerbaijani:qlobus (az) Arabic:کره مجسمه ( kure mujassame ) Belarusian:гло́бус m ( hlóbus ) ,глёбус m ( hljóbus ) Bulgarian:гло́бус m ( glóbus ) Catalan:globus (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:地球儀 / 地球仪 (zh) ( dìqiúyí ) Cornish:pel an norvys f Czech:glóbus (cs) m Danish:globus (da) c Dutch:wereldbol (nl) m ,globe (nl) c Esperanto:terglobuso Estonian:gloobus Finnish:karttapallo (fi) French:globe (fr) m Georgian:გლობუსი ( globusi ) German:Globus (de) m Greek:υδρόγειος σφαίρα (el) f ( ydrógeios sfaíra ) Hawaiian:hulipoepoe Hebrew:גְּלוֹבּוּס (he) m ( glóbus ) Hindi:ग्लोब ( glob ) Hungarian:földgömb (hu) ,( rare or very specific ) glóbusz (hu) Icelandic:hnattlíkan (is) f Indonesian:globe (id) ,bola dunia (id) Irish:cruinneog f Italian:globo (it) m Japanese:グローブ (ja) ( gurōbu ) ,地球儀 (ja) ( ちきゅうぎ, chikyūgi ) Kazakh:глобус ( globus ) Korean:지구의(地球儀) (ko) ( jiguui ) ,지구본(地球本) (ko) ( jigubon ) Kyrgyz:глобус (ky) ( globus ) Lao:ລູກໂລກ ( lūk lōk ) Latvian:globuss m Lithuanian:gaublys m Macedonian:глобус m ( globus ) Malay:glob Neapolitan:gruóbo Norwegian:Bokmål:globus (no) m Nynorsk:globus m Pashto:غونډاری (ps) m ( ǧunḍarai ) Persian:Iranian Persian:گِلُب ( gelob ) ,کُرِهٔ اَرْض ( kore-ye arz ) ,کُرِهٔ جُغْرافِیَایی ( kore-ye joğrâfiyâyi ) ,کُرِهٔ زَمین ( kore-ye zamin ) Polish:globus (pl) m Portuguese:globo (pt) m Romanian:glob (ro) n Russian:гло́бус (ru) m ( glóbus ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:гло́бус m Roman:glóbus (sh) m Slovak:glóbus (sk) m Slovene:globus (sl) m Spanish:globo terráqueo (es) m ,globo (es) m Swahili:globu (sw) Swedish:jordglob (sv) ,glob (sv) c Tagalog:globo (tl) Tajik:глобус ( globus ) Tatar:глобус ( globus ) Telugu:గోళము (te) ( gōḷamu ) Thai:ลูกโลก (th) ( lûuk-lôok ) Turkish:küre (tr) Ukrainian:гло́бус (uk) m ( hlóbus ) Urdu:کُرَّۂ اَرْض m ( kurra-yi arz ) ,گْلوب ( glob ) Uyghur:گلوبۇس ( globus ) Uzbek:globus (uz) Vietnamese:quả địa cầu Yiddish:גלאָבוס m ( globus ) Zazaki:kure (diq) ,globes
globe (third-person singular simple present globes ,present participle globing ,simple past and past participle globed )
( intransitive ) To becomespherical .( transitive ) To makespherical .FromFrench globe , fromLatin globus ( “ sphere, globe ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ɡloːbə/ ,[ˈɡ̊loːb̥ə] globe c (singular definite globen ,plural indefinite glober )
globe Inherited fromMiddle French globe , borrowed fromLatin globus .
globe m (plural globes )
globe Borrowed fromDutch globe , fromMiddle French globe , fromOld French globe , fromLatin globus .Doublet ofglobus .
globe (plural globe -globe )
globe the planet Earth. a spherical model of Earth or other planet. globe
vocative singular ofglobus Borrowed fromLatin globus .
globe m (plural globes )
roll (of paper, etc.)globe (sphere showing a representation of the Earth)Godefroy, Frédéric ,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX e auXV e siècle (1881) (globe )Godefroy, Frédéric ,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX e auXV e siècle (1881) (globe , supplement)globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе )
inflection ofgloba : genitive singular nominative / accusative / vocative plural globe (Cyrillic spelling глобе )
third-person plural present ofglobiti